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Lancashire-Blackburn-1824

CBTM:
19282
Map Date:
[1824]
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library LS S (Acc.?)
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Blackburn
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD682282
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 7025
Map title:
'Blackburn.'
Comments on map:
Stated to be surveyed in 1824 for 'Baines Lancashire'.
Scale:
1:7920
Map-maker:
Jas. Gillies [sv], Sidy. Hall, Bury Strt, Bloomsbury [eng], W. Wales & Co., Castle St, Liverpool [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
24.2 x 17.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 1.c.10, CUL 6.82.7, Lancashire RO SRL/A21, DP 175; Bolton Archives ZAL/773; Sheffield Archives WWM MP67; Manchester Central Library S; TNA [PRO] T72/8 (with MS extensions); BOL C.A.Lancs 4o 86 [1852: pb J. Walkkden, in P.A. Whittle, Blackburn as it is]; BLML Maps 54.b.33, BOL G.A.Lancs 4o 354, CUL 6.96.564 [book at 475.4.c.95.35-], Lancashire RO SRL/A21 [E.J. Morten, 1969]; BOL C17:3 d.5 [1978: Hendon Pub.]; BOL (E)C17:70 Blackburn (23) [1992: T.H.C.L. Books].
Industry:
food/drink, lime/cement, uncertain, rope walk, warehousing, timber, misc: Powder Magazine; [three breweries appear in the reference].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Service and professional:
banks
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: what is presumably the market place and parish church: not readily reconciled with the map.
Borders:
decorative
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
New road to Preston [dotted].
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1:10,560
1891-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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